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Galveston Island Lot sales; 1837

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Paper Start Price:1,950.00 USD Estimated At:3,250.00 - 4,500.00 USD
Galveston Island Lot sales; 1837
<B>Galveston Island Lot Sales.</B></I> Comprises: <B>1) Edwin Waller</B></I> Document Signed "<I>Edwin Waller</B></I>," one page, 7.75" x 5". Houston, Texas, November 15, 1837. Partly printed, completed in manuscript. In part, "<I>Nine months after date I promise to pay to the Secretary of the Treasury of the Republic of Texas One hundred & seven dollars,-in promissory notes of the government, in gold or in silver, for value received...</B></I>" Witness: "<I>G. Wm. Adams</B></I>." Very fine condition. <B>2) Doswell & Adams</B></I> Document Signed "<I>Doswell & Adams</B></I>"/Auctioneers, one page, 7.75" x 4.75". Houston, Texas, November 15, 1837. Partly printed, completed in manuscript. In part, "<I>This is to certify, That S. Rhoades Fisher purchased Lot. No. 266 in Section No. One on Galveston Island, for Ten Dollars...per act of Congress, approved June, 1837...</B></I>" Slight separation at folds at edges. Fine condition. <B>Edwin Waller</B></I>, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, was Texas Postmaster General in 1839 and first Mayor of Austin in 1840. <B>Samuel Rhoads Fisher</B></I>, also a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, was Secretary of the Navy from 1836-1837. <I>From the collection of Darrel Brown.</B></I><BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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